I think the answer to this question is not tight to Julia. Both models have advantagous and they are actually not comparable 1 to 1.
One simple reason why Julia currently has no threads is that libjulia is not thread safe. I am experimenting in changing this (see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6741) but it is far from clear if this will be feasible in the end. Cheers, Tobi Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014 11:32:11 UTC+2 schrieb Bienlein: > > Hello, > > I'd like to ask why Julia does not have a conventional thread model à la > Java, C++, etc. but is based on couroutines. Not that I would criticise > this. I would just like to know in what way the use case of Julia promotes > couroutines simply out of interest, because it is not obvious to me. > > Thanks, Bienlein >
